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Rushion interviews Sherri Shepherd, She overcame being fired from The View, divorced, and industry rejections to host the #1 new daytime talk show, Sherri. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My guest is Sherry Shepherd. She's the new Queen of
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Speaker 1: daytime Talk Sherry and nac Image Award winning show one
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Speaker 1: this year Outstanding talk show series where she carries her
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Speaker 1: comedic takes on or shares her comedic takes on various
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Speaker 1: topics like laugh Lounge, Best Life series She's a Boss.
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Speaker 1: Fox Television has renewed the number one new nationalist syndicated
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Speaker 1: daytime talker for two years through twenty twenty four. Twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five, we're going to be discussing her career. She
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Speaker 1: co hosted the daytime talk show as you remember the
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Speaker 1: view being on Dancing with Stars This Nation and I
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Speaker 1: cast her way back when on the Damie Fox Jamie
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Speaker 1: Fox Show as an actress when I was the co
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Speaker 1: executive producer. Now she's whole co hosting something else. If
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Speaker 1: you don't know about this, an NACP Image Award winning
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Speaker 1: podcast called Two Funny Mamas with comedian and actress Kim Whitley.
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Speaker 1: They will have an upcoming comedy tour that we'll be
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Speaker 1: talking about called two Funny Mamls. Please Walking the Money,
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Speaker 1: Main Conversations Masterclass the Daytime. The award winned the number
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Speaker 1: one Queen of Talk show comedian actress author Sherry Shepard.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing, Cherry? Rest on him? Say so much?
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Speaker 1: Les Chery gonna say, I'm done? You say everything, Rashane,
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Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. That's what I was cooking.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to do anything. Sharry, you are amazing.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the time to call my show.
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Speaker 1: You know, we broadcast live every Tuesday on w c
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Speaker 1: OKA and Atlanta, Georgia and the syndicates nationally on HBCU
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Speaker 1: stations in nationwide as well as my podcast. But more importantly,
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Speaker 1: when I get a talent like you who understands that
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Speaker 1: the journey, you know, journey I mentioned when we first met.
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Speaker 1: We're back when on the Jamie Foxx Show. But it's
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Speaker 1: been a journey. Talk about let's start now presently the
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Speaker 1: excitement that's happening the podcast to talk show. How did
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Speaker 1: the talk show come about? Because you were guesting series
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Speaker 1: on it? And then also that the talk show was given,
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Speaker 1: It was you giving the opportunity to do it. Can
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Speaker 1: you walk it through that process emotionally and physically? Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've always wanted to do have a talk show of
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Speaker 1: my own. This started back eighteen years ago. I had
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Speaker 1: actually done a pilot for a talk show for ABC Disney.
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Speaker 1: I did it on the set of Regis and Kelly
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Speaker 1: and and it went, you know what, it was okay.
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Speaker 1: Like they came and saw me, the Disney people doing
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Speaker 1: stand up at the Last Factory Rashaun, and they liked me,
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Speaker 1: and they did this pilot and they tried to do
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Speaker 1: a sidekick and it didn't work. Um, you know, we
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Speaker 1: did chemistry testing with all of the major stars that
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Speaker 1: you hear about now and it didn't work. So they
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Speaker 1: did it for me by myself, and it was okay.
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Speaker 1: And the reason why it was okay, hey, it was
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Speaker 1: because they kept coming to me the executive thing, we
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Speaker 1: want to see that thing that you do on stage.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't know what that thing was that they
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Speaker 1: were talking about. All I knew was that I was
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Speaker 1: grateful to God for the opportunity. I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: make people laugh. My voice wasn't even as deep. It
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Speaker 1: pretty much was like, Hey, everybody, how you doing. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to my home show, right, And it didn't work then
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Speaker 1: eighteen years ago, because I didn't know who I was.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know really who my audience was. I didn't know,
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Speaker 1: I excuse me, what I would do, what I wouldn't do.
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Speaker 1: If you told me to stand on my head, I
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Speaker 1: would have done it as long as it made people laugh.
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Speaker 1: So fast forward. It didn't go, of course it didn't,
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Speaker 1: and so I got the opportunity. I went back to acting,
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Speaker 1: still having that dream, and I was doing a movie
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Speaker 1: called Who's Your Caddie? And they asked me to co
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Speaker 1: host on the View like a guest. Well, I got
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Speaker 1: that job, and you know that was like really my
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Speaker 1: training ground for show. And in the meantime, I've done
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Speaker 1: a lot of guests. You know, I was sitting on
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Speaker 1: the couch and I was a guest. So I learned
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Speaker 1: how to do talk shows and what I like. From
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Speaker 1: that end, I did the View, got let go, got
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Speaker 1: fired from the View, and I went and pitched a
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Speaker 1: talk Let's let's talk about that, because you know, I
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Speaker 1: know I've had some dark moments in Hollywood, because you know,
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Speaker 1: when it happens in public like that, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: not like working at IBM. It's not like working at
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Speaker 1: the post office and burber Key. You know, you just
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Speaker 1: walk home and go and tell your loved ones you
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Speaker 1: don't have a job. When it happens in public, that
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Speaker 1: really takes a twofold. It's takes the ego hit, it
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Speaker 1: takes a personal hit. And then you also wondered, oh,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get another shot? How did you overcome that moment? Well,
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Speaker 1: I knew I couldn't be too upset when they released
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Speaker 1: me from the View because God had told me and
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Speaker 1: I have to go spiritual in my career because that
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Speaker 1: is the number one who has made it happen. But
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Speaker 1: God had said to me very clearly that last year
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Speaker 1: of the View, it's time to go, It's time to move.
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Speaker 1: And when I told my people, my team that I
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Speaker 1: was going to quit the View, everybody went into an uproar.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you won't be able to get a
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Speaker 1: talk show. It takes a year to develop. You're making
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Speaker 1: amazing money. And I was, you're making all of this money,
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna nobody in Hollywood knows you. No, No, no,
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Speaker 1: you can't, you can't, and I said no, God was
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Speaker 1: very clear it's time for me to go. It was
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Speaker 1: the year that Barbara Walters was retiring. And then once
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Speaker 1: I was clear on that, they kept trying to give
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Speaker 1: me more money at the View to keep me, and
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Speaker 1: I kept I continued saying no. And then Rashaun, once
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Speaker 1: it happened that I thought I was going to go
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Speaker 1: through a very messy divorce, I got scared and I said, oh,
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Speaker 1: this is gonna be expensive and messy. I'm gonna stay
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Speaker 1: at the View and take the big old stalary raise
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Speaker 1: they gave me. Well, do you know when God says
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Speaker 1: it's time to go, if you don't do it, he's
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Speaker 1: gonna push you out of it. Because he said it
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Speaker 1: was time to go. And so they released They did
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Speaker 1: not renew Jenny McCarthy's contract. They let go of a
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Speaker 1: Barbara Walker's co creator, Bill Getty. It was a number
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Speaker 1: of people that they were letting go. And I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: praying with everybody. I'm like, you know what, Jenny is
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Speaker 1: gonna be okay, God gonna give you something better. You
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Speaker 1: know what, Bill Getty is gonna be okay. And then
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Speaker 1: they called me in the office. They said, sariy Schever,
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Speaker 1: we need to see you. And I was like, for what.
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Speaker 1: I went in there and they said, um. They said,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna release you from your contract now. When you're
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Speaker 1: gonna do what? And they said, we're not gonna renew
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Speaker 1: your contract. And I said, but you get you just
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Speaker 1: were trying to give me a big salary bump. And
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Speaker 1: they said, no, things are different now and we're not
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Speaker 1: going to renew. And I remember I was sitting in
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Speaker 1: my dressing room in front of the mirror, and I said, Lord,
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Speaker 1: I'm about to go through this divorce. I got a
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Speaker 1: child with special needs, his therapy, his schooling. Did I
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Speaker 1: tell you I'm about to get divorced and this is
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Speaker 1: gonna cost me a lot of money? And it was
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Speaker 1: so still, the voice of God saying I told you
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Speaker 1: it was time to go. So if I got to
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Speaker 1: push you out, it's time to go. And I said, well,
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Speaker 1: then what am I supposed to do God, because I
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Speaker 1: don't know if I told you I'm getting a divorced.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you've been talking to God but he didn't hear you.
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Speaker 1: And I just know God say, do you trust me?
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Speaker 1: And I said not really, I just I got this much,
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Speaker 1: this end of trust, and it was like I felt
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Speaker 1: like God saying that's all I need and that was it.
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Speaker 1: But resigned literally two weeks later, I don't even think
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Speaker 1: it was two weeks. Will Packer called me and he said, hey, lady, pause,
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Speaker 1: if I was two in the morning, I got a
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Speaker 1: role for you and right along too. Would you play
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Speaker 1: this part? I say yes. A week before that, Sinderella
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Speaker 1: on Broadway called and said, we want you to play
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Speaker 1: the evil stepmother Keiki Palmers playing Cinderella. You were the
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Speaker 1: first black evil stepmother on Broadway. I said, I can't sing.
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Speaker 1: They said, don't work. We took away all your solo
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Speaker 1: You're just gonna sing one Kiki and other in your
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Speaker 1: step daughters. I said, yes, I did a month's run,
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Speaker 1: got to stay in a big penhouse. They paid me
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Speaker 1: a lot of money to be on Broadway and and
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Speaker 1: went through very extensive divorce. But God always provided. So
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Speaker 1: that's how yes it was. It was a little embarrassing,
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Speaker 1: but I knew behind it right there was a reason
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Speaker 1: why they let me go. So sometimes I think we
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Speaker 1: look at things like, oh my God, what am I
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Speaker 1: gonna do? This is horrible? How am I going to
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Speaker 1: bounce back? But if God says it's time to go,
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Speaker 1: then there's something else that he has. So with that,
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Speaker 1: I went again around to Hollywood pitching a talk show
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Speaker 1: and everybody said no. Over sign absolutely, let everybody know.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to the one and only Sherry Shepherd. She's
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Speaker 1: talking about her history, but she now is the new
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Speaker 1: queen of daytime talk. If you haven't seen the show,
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Speaker 1: it's called Sherry in Image Award winning show that one
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Speaker 1: this year, And now she's telling us her journey. Her
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Speaker 1: journey is one of I said early, if you have
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Speaker 1: a gift, leave with your gift. And that's what she's doing.
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Speaker 1: And when people told her, her friends, her family, the
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Speaker 1: whole co workers told her to stay on the view,
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Speaker 1: she knew it was time to do to leave. That's
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Speaker 1: why I say, if you have a plan, you have
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Speaker 1: a dream, stick with it. And that's what she telling us.
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Speaker 1: Now continue the story. Well, I was pitching the talk show.
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Speaker 1: I had the vision in my head and everybody was
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Speaker 1: not interested. Everybody said no. They kept saying no, So
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Speaker 1: I said, well, what am I supposed to do? I
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Speaker 1: kept acting, but I kept honing my skills. I would
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Speaker 1: go I was on talk shows and again be a
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Speaker 1: guest right so that I get whole nose skills. And
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Speaker 1: I think after that I just started doing like game shows.
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Speaker 1: I was hosting the New Libay Game. I was hosting
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Speaker 1: another game show where I got to hone my skills,
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Speaker 1: and just like being able to improv and talk to people,
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Speaker 1: I kept doing stand up. All of these things really
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Speaker 1: prepped me for being able to do a talk show
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Speaker 1: stand up. I said, on stage for forty five minutes,
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Speaker 1: you know you you handle stand up absolutely. I saw
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Speaker 1: you when you was open for Kim that Kim tour,
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Speaker 1: which was selling when I was opening for Kim and
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Speaker 1: baby Face. As when you stand on stage, you have
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Speaker 1: to talk for forty five minutes. And I always tell
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Speaker 1: people stand up comics make the best talk show homes
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Speaker 1: because we know how to create magic where there is none.
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Speaker 1: There's no death space with the stand up comic. We're
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Speaker 1: used to improving, we're used to making things funny, and
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Speaker 1: everybody is continued to say no. I continue. My acting
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Speaker 1: career flourished, and after that what happened was I think
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Speaker 1: around two thousand, two thousand and nine, Wendy Williams was
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Speaker 1: in we knew that she was sick, but we didn't
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Speaker 1: know she was in rehab. And I was assuming a
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Speaker 1: movie with Acon Crockett and DC and the Wendy Williams
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Speaker 1: the show called Now I have been a guest on
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Speaker 1: her show. There's even a clip of me on YouTube
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Speaker 1: of Wendy saying what do you want to do? And
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Speaker 1: I said, Wendy, I'm on my own talk show. Maybe
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Speaker 1: we could, Oh, Sherry wow Wow to existence I'm running
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Speaker 1: on the couch and I go, maybe we go with
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Speaker 1: Sherry if she laughed. And so they called me to
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Speaker 1: be they when the people were filling in for Wendy,
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Speaker 1: they had panels of comics, now this in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine, this in two thousand nine, two thousand and nine,
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Speaker 1: and they wanted me to be a part of a panel.
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Speaker 1: And I remember Michael Yo and different comics were filling
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Speaker 1: in at one time for Wendy, kind of like a
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Speaker 1: viewlight panel. And so when they called me, something inside
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Speaker 1: of me said say no, And I said no, I
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Speaker 1: will I will host if you let me do it
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Speaker 1: by myself, and give me two days Monday and Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: because Monday is your highest rated day. Because so much
12:45
Speaker 1: stuff happens over the weekend and people want to see
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna say. And they said, absolutely not. You'll
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Speaker 1: be a part of a panel. And I said no,
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Speaker 1: and I walked away, and I remember saying a fon.
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Speaker 1: I hope I did the right thing, but I know
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Speaker 1: I came from doing the view, so I know I
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Speaker 1: could do it by myself. It's been my dream. They
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Speaker 1: didn't call me for about two or three weeks. Heki
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Speaker 1: Palmer hosted it by herself. There are only four people
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Speaker 1: that did it. Michael Rapp Report hosted it by himself,
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Speaker 1: Jerry O'Connell hosted it by himself, and me, and they
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Speaker 1: called me back and they said, we'll let you host
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Speaker 1: it for two days by yourself, Monday and Tuesday. And
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Speaker 1: I was so nervous, but when I tell you, the
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Speaker 1: ratings were amazing. When I hosted it. They called me
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Speaker 1: really before I had even left New York, and they said,
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Speaker 1: can you host again the entire week. By the time
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Speaker 1: I got back to my hotel to change, they had
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Speaker 1: canceled it. They canceled me hosting. They showed reruns. But
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Speaker 1: what they did do is debmart Mercury offered me a
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Speaker 1: talk show back in two thousand and nine, and it
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Speaker 1: didn't happen. When I tell you, Rashaun, I literally was that. God,
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Speaker 1: what is going on? Two thousand not We negotiated the salary,
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Speaker 1: we had everything together. I knew what I would do
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Speaker 1: with this talk show that my Mercury had, and it
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Speaker 1: just they pulled the contract literally before I was supposed
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Speaker 1: to sign it. And I'm going, what in the world,
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Speaker 1: ugly cries not running down my nose. My ratings were
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Speaker 1: amazing for those two days, no reason. My team just goes,
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Speaker 1: they just pulled the contract. They resended the offer. So
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Speaker 1: I go again to Hollywood pitching is my demo reel
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Speaker 1: was me filling in for Wendy, and I took it
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Speaker 1: around and one lady even said, a big casting director,
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Speaker 1: there's a big talk show in the air now that
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Speaker 1: they produced. She looked at me and she I said,
14:44
Speaker 1: I got the sizzle reel because it kind of shows
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Speaker 1: what I want to do from my own time. She
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Speaker 1: said I don't need to see it, and I said,
14:50
Speaker 1: but I really need you to see it. She goes,
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Speaker 1: I don't and she did her hand like dismissing dismission.
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Speaker 1: I don't very dismissingly, she said, I don't need to
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Speaker 1: see it, and she proceeded to tell me about a
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Speaker 1: new talk show they had picked up, and if they
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Speaker 1: had picked up this other talk show with a singer
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Speaker 1: from a music show and it was amazing and you know,
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Speaker 1: and she was like, maybe I could put you on
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Speaker 1: a talk show where it's four three cooks and you
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Speaker 1: learn how to America with the And I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: don't that is very true. It's Sherry, oh that thought.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back because I'm telling you you
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Speaker 1: want to hear about the Too Funny Mama's tour that podcast.
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Speaker 1: Want to hear about all her opportunities. More importantly, Sherry,
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Speaker 1: you following your dreams. You live in your dreams. That's
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Speaker 1: letting people that in your darkest moment, would keep dreaming,
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Speaker 1: in your darkest moment, would keep winning because people out
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Speaker 1: there will find you because they believe in you, and
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Speaker 1: God has blessed you because you willing to put in
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rushan McDonald. I'm an interview. I'm interviewing
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Speaker 1: Sherry Sheep with the new Queen of Daytime Talk. It's
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Speaker 1: not something that thought that she just thought of last week.
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Speaker 1: It's something that's been hit on mind for a long time.
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Speaker 1: You know, always to be able to can a dream
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Speaker 1: come true? Yes, if you put the work in can
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Speaker 1: a dream come true? Yes? If you believe in yes,
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Speaker 1: if you keep telling people this is something you want
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Speaker 1: to do. Sherry that there was a daughter's there was
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Speaker 1: people who questioned you. At what point did you and
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Speaker 1: yourself realize you know something, I'm gonna trust me. I'm
17:36
Speaker 1: gonna trust Sherry Shep. You know at what point? I
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Speaker 1: just I believed always, even when I got let go
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Speaker 1: from the view, I knew I had something to offer.
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Speaker 1: I just knew I needed one person to believe in me,
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Speaker 1: and no matter that I kept getting knows. Yes, it hurts, Yes,
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Speaker 1: I cried, But I knew that God didn't put this
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Speaker 1: dream inside of me and have me doing and me
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Speaker 1: being so good at it that it would fall to
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Speaker 1: the wayside, and I knew I had to hold on
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Speaker 1: to that dream despite what it looked like, because, like
18:14
Speaker 1: I said, when I ran around this the last time
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Speaker 1: in Hollywood and everybody was saying no Rashaan, there was
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Speaker 1: one network that I went to and the woman said
18:24
Speaker 1: to me she was ahead of the network and they
18:27
Speaker 1: didn't have any talk shows, and she said, I got
18:29
Speaker 1: chills watching you still in for Wendy in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine. She said, I loved the civil real I'm
18:36
Speaker 1: the one that makes the decision, and I knew before
18:39
Speaker 1: I walked out of the room that I had the
18:40
Speaker 1: deal for my own talk show. Do you know six
18:43
Speaker 1: weeks later they called my team and they said, nope,
18:46
Speaker 1: we're gonna go with another woman. We think she's amazing
18:49
Speaker 1: and we're not gonna do seriously, And I go, what
18:51
Speaker 1: happened to the ladies? She got chills? Right, And when
18:54
Speaker 1: I say that was when I set out and I
18:57
Speaker 1: cried again, and I said, I said, Lord, this is
18:59
Speaker 1: too painful, this dream. I can see it in my
19:03
Speaker 1: mind of what I want to do, and it's so painful.
19:06
Speaker 1: The knows that I'm gonna I'm gonna focus on my
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Speaker 1: acting and let you bring this back to me. Um,
19:12
Speaker 1: you know, because I just don't want to. I don't
19:14
Speaker 1: want to think about it. Which bat you're telling anybody
19:16
Speaker 1: you didn't just sit around and soul because you didn't
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Speaker 1: sit around and going, oh this is this is the
19:20
Speaker 1: end of the road. Because you and I were talking
19:22
Speaker 1: all the time, you know, because at the time that
19:24
Speaker 1: whole twenty twelve to twenty fifty sixteen, you know, Steve
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Speaker 1: Harvey and I was up in Chicago. We would invite
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Speaker 1: you on to the show as a gas and we
19:32
Speaker 1: talked about the acting opportunities, and you will, you were
19:36
Speaker 1: staying focused. You were letting the good in you, the
19:38
Speaker 1: success in you, to keep moving you forward and not
19:41
Speaker 1: waddling around into what else. No, I didn't. And I
19:45
Speaker 1: remember doing, um, um, the Steve Harvey Show, and I
19:48
Speaker 1: remember you guys will following me out there, and I
19:50
Speaker 1: remember you would be so encouraging to me, and you
19:53
Speaker 1: would tell me how good I was. The one thing
19:55
Speaker 1: I know I was. I'm a great guest. Yes you are, Yes,
19:58
Speaker 1: you are. The mark of agree guest is you don't
20:01
Speaker 1: have the talk show host don't have to do any work.
20:03
Speaker 1: They can literally sit back and enjoy you. And that's
20:06
Speaker 1: one of the things that I knew as soon as
20:08
Speaker 1: I stepped out on a couch and somebody had to
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Speaker 1: interview me, just Jabi Guida, let me go and enjoy
20:14
Speaker 1: the show, and I just started. I really my acting
20:19
Speaker 1: took off. I was a regular and sitcoms and doing
20:22
Speaker 1: the movies and critically acclaimed movies. And what happened was
20:28
Speaker 1: out of the blue, when I tell you, out of
20:32
Speaker 1: the blue, I got a call. Not only was I
20:36
Speaker 1: co hosting, they asked me back to co host for
20:38
Speaker 1: a week the View. I hadn't been on the View
20:41
Speaker 1: for three years and they called me and they said,
20:44
Speaker 1: could you just sit in for an entire week? So
20:47
Speaker 1: that was amazing. I got to sit in for an
20:49
Speaker 1: entire week and I got a phone call from jeb
20:52
Speaker 1: My Mercury and they said, could you fill in for
20:55
Speaker 1: a week now. At the time, oh, I didn't even
20:58
Speaker 1: say this. I had gone to dish. They wanted me
21:01
Speaker 1: to be a co host in Atlanta, and I said, no,
21:04
Speaker 1: I'm not moving to Atlanta. I'm thinking, if you'll if
21:07
Speaker 1: you'll let me do it in La I'll think about it.
21:09
Speaker 1: And I met with the deditionation Folks, which is owned
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Speaker 1: by five by Fox, absolutely Fox and the payment Steve
21:17
Speaker 1: Brown over the Fox. Steve Brown and I remember being
21:21
Speaker 1: in the meeting Rishan and we're talking, talking, talking, and
21:25
Speaker 1: I said to them, with my ultimate goal, I you know,
21:28
Speaker 1: being a co host is great, but my ultimate goal
21:31
Speaker 1: is I want my own talk show. And they said
21:35
Speaker 1: to me, they go, well, Nick Cannon has a show,
21:38
Speaker 1: so don't a face. And I go, Nick Cannon, Now
21:44
Speaker 1: this is the reasoning Nick Cannon and we love each
21:46
Speaker 1: other out. Nick Cannon, Well, I said it was because
21:51
Speaker 1: the people who who filled in from Wendy by themselves,
21:55
Speaker 1: they all got a show. Kekey Palmer went on to
21:59
Speaker 1: co host with Michael Strayhand. She got that gig. And
22:05
Speaker 1: right after filling as Wendy, Michael Rappaport got I think
22:09
Speaker 1: he did a pilot, uh for a talk show. It
22:12
Speaker 1: didn't go. Jerry O'Connell did a six week test run,
22:16
Speaker 1: remember his talk show. Those three they all had to
22:21
Speaker 1: say it. I like, and so Nick Cannon also, he
22:24
Speaker 1: stills in't by himself. Still was five of us. So
22:26
Speaker 1: when they said Nick Cannon had it, so I was like,
22:29
Speaker 1: everybody who feels it got something. And literally I went.
22:34
Speaker 1: They said, yeah, Nick Cannon's his show's coming out, so
22:37
Speaker 1: we don't really have the space for another talk show,
22:40
Speaker 1: and but we want you to be on Dish. Now
22:42
Speaker 1: I accept the destination. Thank goodness, because as soon as
22:45
Speaker 1: I accepted it, uh, quarantine happened. So they had already right.
22:52
Speaker 1: But when they said Nick Cannon, and it just it
22:55
Speaker 1: was a representative of everything that, like, I could see
22:59
Speaker 1: my dream. But I'm gonna Lord, everybody else's getting it
23:02
Speaker 1: but me. And I went downstairs in the parking lot
23:06
Speaker 1: and I started crying again, and my manager started crying too,
23:10
Speaker 1: and I looked at him and I go, what are
23:11
Speaker 1: you're crying for? And I'm crying, Creed, You're making me cry?
23:15
Speaker 1: And I go with this. I don't like I'm just
23:18
Speaker 1: like rich white Man. I don't like being cry And
23:20
Speaker 1: I go, you just let me to be crying. You're
23:22
Speaker 1: getting commission. You're fine. So after that happened, I stayed
23:28
Speaker 1: on this nation, which prepared me again. Then I was
23:32
Speaker 1: at home by myself, reading a prompter, and also once
23:36
Speaker 1: we got back in the studio, reading a prompter by myself.
23:38
Speaker 1: But you would think that I was really um interacting
23:42
Speaker 1: with the Atlanta crew, bratt and head cracking all of them.
23:45
Speaker 1: So reading that prompter helped me tell a story like
23:50
Speaker 1: a bunch of people are in the room. So that
23:52
Speaker 1: prepared me so when the when the offer came from
23:55
Speaker 1: Detmar for me to fill in, I was on the
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Speaker 1: View guest co hosting, and they called jeb Mar Mercury
24:01
Speaker 1: and said, could you fill in for a week. I
24:05
Speaker 1: ended up filling in for a week, and they kept
24:07
Speaker 1: asking me to come back for another week. This nation
24:10
Speaker 1: was getting mad and they were saying they, hey, wait
24:11
Speaker 1: a minute, hold on't they said no. I said, Lord,
24:15
Speaker 1: you gotta work it out. If this is from you,
24:18
Speaker 1: then you will work it out. Then all of a sudden,
24:20
Speaker 1: this nation would say go ahead and do another couple
24:22
Speaker 1: of weeks. Ellen called me. I hadn't been on The
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Speaker 1: Ellen Show in twelve years. And then she called and
24:28
Speaker 1: she said, I want you to come back for my
24:30
Speaker 1: last season. And then but then I was supposed to
24:35
Speaker 1: sit in for a week with zeb Mar Mercury, who
24:37
Speaker 1: did the Wendy Show. And they said absolutely not because
24:40
Speaker 1: we've had you to sit in. And I said, Lord,
24:43
Speaker 1: if this is what I'm supposed to do, you'll work
24:45
Speaker 1: out both Rashaan. Do you know they worked it out
24:48
Speaker 1: so I was able to do Ellen. I hadn't set
24:50
Speaker 1: in her seat for twelve years, and I still was
24:52
Speaker 1: able to go to New York and my ratings were
24:55
Speaker 1: so high when I filled in for Wendsy and I said, Lord,
25:01
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna leave it to you. I'm not gonna
25:02
Speaker 1: think about it. I'm just gonna do what she created
25:04
Speaker 1: me to do. And then they came through with the
25:07
Speaker 1: offer for me to have my own talk show. Congratulation,
25:10
Speaker 1: same offer to day come back within two thousand and nine.
25:13
Speaker 1: More money, more money, money. You gotta know your words
25:17
Speaker 1: and number one number one. I know you do. We
25:21
Speaker 1: text each other all the time. You text me. Look
25:23
Speaker 1: at this, I'm number one the women and then number
25:24
Speaker 1: one talking to daytime talk show. And but that doesn't
25:27
Speaker 1: stop you. I'm just telling you something about her. You know,
25:29
Speaker 1: she has a movie she's gonna do this summer. But
25:31
Speaker 1: more importantly, she's doing a comedy tour with the incredibly
25:35
Speaker 1: funny actress Kim Whitley, who I also have known for
25:38
Speaker 1: many many years. To two. Funny Mama's podcast was started
25:42
Speaker 1: basically on the Tim Join the Show correct that's when
25:44
Speaker 1: you guys got together as a duo and now you're
25:47
Speaker 1: turning into the podcast. It has one back to back
25:49
Speaker 1: in WACP Awards for an Image Award for Outstanding Podcasts.
25:55
Speaker 1: So what's this? What's this tour? Y'all doing? Stand up?
25:58
Speaker 1: What are y'all doing out there? We decided to It
26:01
Speaker 1: took me three years to get this girl to do
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Speaker 1: a podcast with me, and she finally said yes, and
26:06
Speaker 1: we were doing that during the quarantine. We just wanted
26:09
Speaker 1: to make people laugh and it's been so successful and
26:12
Speaker 1: we've won the NAACP Image Awards. I say, Ken, we
26:14
Speaker 1: got to take this on the road because I don't
26:16
Speaker 1: know any duo that can get on stage and stand
26:18
Speaker 1: there for an hour and talk to each other. And
26:22
Speaker 1: she said yes. So we're doing some test days to
26:26
Speaker 1: see how it goes. If we can stand each other
26:28
Speaker 1: for three consecutive weekends, and if we do that, we
26:33
Speaker 1: will continue this tour. And so're you can go to
26:36
Speaker 1: Cherry Show tv dot com to find out where we're
26:39
Speaker 1: gonna be. We're gonna be in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
26:41
Speaker 1: Ben Salem, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, and so Cherry showtv
26:48
Speaker 1: dot com to find out exactly where the theaters are,
26:51
Speaker 1: and we're just doing stand up and we bowled our
26:53
Speaker 1: stand up comments. We love doing stand up, so to
26:56
Speaker 1: be able to go out there and take this experience
26:58
Speaker 1: live to folks, those Shenanigan, I'm so excited. Well, I
27:02
Speaker 1: just I gotta ask this because both of you do
27:04
Speaker 1: a brilliant improv y'all Do y'all do any of that?
27:08
Speaker 1: Do y'all come back on stage together? Or just one
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Speaker 1: doesn't said and then the other doesn't said? How does
27:12
Speaker 1: that work? As far as stand up? Risant when I say,
27:15
Speaker 1: we've been doing the improv and we get on stage
27:18
Speaker 1: and we get up, and we did a live stream
27:20
Speaker 1: during quarantine, and you know, so people could see it.
27:24
Speaker 1: We did almost ninety minutes improv on stage together just talking. Now,
27:30
Speaker 1: what we do is we come on stage together for
27:32
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes, and we really got to be strict
27:35
Speaker 1: because Kim and I can talk for two days. Right,
27:37
Speaker 1: come on for about fifty three minutes him, I leave,
27:41
Speaker 1: I introduce Kim. She does stand up for about twenty
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes. I come back and I do usually about
27:47
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty minutes as well, then we do a
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Speaker 1: Q and A together and we're on stage. Probably we're
27:53
Speaker 1: on stage, and today's stay. This is a union theater.
27:58
Speaker 1: Absolutely we were. We were just talk together and we
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Speaker 1: take questions from the audience and it's just a really
28:04
Speaker 1: great night. We'll tell us again, how can we find
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Speaker 1: out about the dates and give us the three dates
28:08
Speaker 1: again that right now? Tell everybody this is an initial
28:12
Speaker 1: start of a great stand up comedy tour, stand up comedy.
28:15
Speaker 1: Both of them are doing it live stand up comedy tool.
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Speaker 1: It's called Two Funny Mamas starring Cherry Shepherd and Kim Whitley.
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Speaker 1: Tell us those dates, tell us where we can go
28:24
Speaker 1: and look get more information about tickets. May nineteenth, we
28:28
Speaker 1: are in New Brunswood, New Jersey. May twentieth, we're ben Salem, Pennsylvania.
28:32
Speaker 1: May twenty first, we are in Wilmington, Delaware. You can
28:36
Speaker 1: go to Cherry showtv dot com and buy a ticket.
28:39
Speaker 1: And this weekend I'm at the City Winery in Chelsea
28:42
Speaker 1: Piers in New York. If you're in New York March
28:45
Speaker 1: thirty first and May fourth, I'm also at the City
28:48
Speaker 1: Winery in New York. What did I say? Or May
28:52
Speaker 1: fourth if you're in town. So those are the standard dates.
28:55
Speaker 1: But can I just thank you for when I got
28:58
Speaker 1: to stalk show course now that I have it, when
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Speaker 1: they offered a toith me and they said yes, I
29:02
Speaker 1: was like they gave a simpy you know, and I'm
29:07
Speaker 1: thankful you said to me, who is your audience? Who
29:11
Speaker 1: are you? Who are you talking to? And it really
29:14
Speaker 1: made me sit down and go who am I? And
29:17
Speaker 1: that is that is informed every decision I make because
29:20
Speaker 1: remember I said I didn't know what I was doing
29:22
Speaker 1: eighteen years ago. Today I know how I can say no,
29:27
Speaker 1: I know who I'm talking to, who my audience is.
29:30
Speaker 1: We're number two we tired with Doctor Phil for women
29:33
Speaker 1: twenty five to fifty four, right behind Kelly and m
29:38
Speaker 1: Ryan and number one new talk show. So I know
29:41
Speaker 1: from you saying Sherry, who are you? Who are you
29:44
Speaker 1: talking to? I'm a single mom, I'm an entrepreneur, i
29:48
Speaker 1: am divorced, I was married one. I'm a woman who
29:52
Speaker 1: came up, who went, who was down and got back up.
29:55
Speaker 1: That's who I'm talking to. I'm a woman in her fifties.
30:00
Speaker 1: I'm talking to women also who are trying to redo
30:02
Speaker 1: their life and reinvent themselves. That's who I'm talking to.
30:07
Speaker 1: So I know when when somebody comes to me with
30:09
Speaker 1: old cockamami idea twenty one year old girl, poor beer
30:13
Speaker 1: over her friend, that's not me show, that is that you.
30:20
Speaker 1: She's the incredible with Sheriffy Shepherd. You know your friend,
30:24
Speaker 1: and you know I love you to death, and I
30:26
Speaker 1: know we text back and forth the good times and
30:28
Speaker 1: the bad times that we've had in our career. But
30:31
Speaker 1: right now it's the good times and congratulations. And you
30:33
Speaker 1: know I'm going to help you own that comedy tour
30:36
Speaker 1: because guess what the world needs to see too, Funny
30:38
Speaker 1: Moms starring Kim Whitley and the incredible Sherry Shepherd. Thank
30:42
Speaker 1: you for calling my show. Sherry, I love your Rashan
30:45
Speaker 1: appreciate you and we talk soon. Okay, all right, but bye.
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